#i did say it was terminal

[goatboard]

not a day goes by where i dont think about the Eas vs Peach battle so

this moment is very fun to me because when i first saw it, it seemed kinda strange for Setsuna to place her made up prediction as some kind of a turning point in Love's life. i mean, "get your happiness" was her catchphrase from way before even meeting Setsuna and in general Love is a happy go lucky type of a person. and that is until you remember

it's Love who often points it out as a sign of her happiness

i dont have better screenshot on hand at the moment but iirc she says it a few times while with Setsuna. for Love Setsuna's prediction did mark the beginning of her happiness

there's also this :>

and all of it amounts to Setsuna being a centerpiece, a sign of Love's happiness

The red heart is a symbol of happiness.

[suja-janee]

I’ve been losing my mind over these guys recently

[fishareglorious]

i do a light chuckle once i remember hofmann and semmelweis are friends but then i remember semmelweis and marcus' suitcase interaction where they talk about her and i am once again inconsolable about this old woman's death

[thelaurenshippen]

the onion bought infowars. I repeat, the onion bought infowars

[cozylittleartblog]

small PSA: if you shop at craft shows or artist alleys, please bring more than apple pay or a virtual card - especially if you're not comfortable entering your card number manually. not all of us have fancy card readers, so please also bring your physical card or cash, even if it's only as backup 👍

[rox-of-iu]

my old blorbos are back in my brain

heart pirates my absolute beloved. shame theyre chillin somewhere in the ocean lol (do not mention the pre-time skip hats of penguin and shachi I'm still attached even tho its already been a million years since then)

anyway every time i remember that Law and Kid are assigned german and Scottish by Oda i gain one hundred years

[blaec-ynk]

i know some people are absolutely incensed that Arcane dropped the ball on the classism and discrimination and poverty and all those plotlines they had introduced but the truth of the matter is that Arcane always framed any type of Zaunite insurrection/revolution against Piltover in bad lighting and claimed that any fight/war for the freedom and wellbeing of future generations is ultimately evil because it gets people living right now killed

Vander is the most sympathetic Undercity leader/hot shot only because he is supporting Piltover's superiority and oppression of the Undercity. he has a deal with the cops to ensure that he will keep his people obedient and subservient to Piltover and the cops. he aids the status quo and thus Piltover's exploitation of Zaun; he never encourages pushing for change in any manner, violent or non-violent, instead always pressuring those around him (esp Vi) to just take Piltover's scraps and mistreatment because you wouldnt want to lose your loved ones, would you? (which is just like, a threat. an actual threat that figures of authority like cops make to their victims to keep them inline) Completely ignoring the fact that people in Zaun HAVE, ARE, and WILL BE losing loved ones to police brutality, disease, toxic/radioactive exposure, famine, poverty, gang violence, etc. BECAUSE OF PILTOVER.

Arcane is/(started out as) a great show but it was always most sympathetic towards Piltover and the status quo. it never pushed for Zaun's independence/freedom in any meaningful way--and whenever it did deal with Zaun potentially becoming its own nation? it didn't show the power of revolutions, of class actions, of uniting and protesting and fighting back--it just said that if you sit your ass down tight and let the oppressive government shit on you enough, you might eventually be granted some rights--unless you fuck it up with a rocket, of course. but that's not how real life has ever worked

not only that but any attempt at fighting back is literally shown as being plain violence for violence's sake. we dont see or hear anything about how silco or vander planned on rebuilding the Undercity/Zaun, how they wanted to expand infrastructure, how they would support the people and keep them safe--Arcane doesnt paint revolutions as the complex operations they are, they just show us the violence of them and nothing else. like really, all Silco wants to do is use Shimmer to scare topside--but that's not how revolutions or fighting against opressors works! because Piltover will be scared, yes, but that just means they will double down harder on all the violence and restrictions. that's obvious. not only that, but lets say Piltover gets scared and retracts from Zaun completely--Zaun seems to be heavily dependent on trade from Piltover to get what they need to survive. Silco doesnt mention anything about how to fix that. and that to me just plays on harmful stereotypes about any and all kinds of social movements. all of the real work is reduced to violence.

i dont have a closing statement im just so pissed at how theyre handling the classism in s1 now that im rewatching it

[aq2003]

if anyone is a fan of dt's voice work/audio dramas like i am and wants to listen to something random they've likely never heard before (or if you're coming down from the tony-baddingham-rivals high and want to see (hear) him play an entirely different yet equally complicated guy) i recommend murder in samarkand! it's quite good :)

cw: explicit mentions of SA/police brutality, islamophobia, and suicidal ideation

(youtube link)

(official site: mp3 download/soundcloud link)

[goatsandgangsters]

so much for my nice relaxing weekend curled up inside with my book and my fresh bread that I made

my mom sent me a guilt trip text at 1 AM because apparently I haven't Atoned Enough for... being upset about her terminal illness on christmas, and crying, and being further upset that they left me alone to cry by myself, and snapping at my stepdad's mom for being homophobic at me while I was crying about being left alone to cry about my mom's terminal illness. and apparently I owe my stepdad's mom an apology for ""screaming at her"" (I did not scream) ""even if you think you were slighted"" (she was homophobic)

and it sucks because I thought we were past that, I actually was feeling a lot better and like I'd recovered from All The Emotional Drain That Was Christmas. and I waited MONTHS to start that book bc I was feeling shitty emotionally and I wanted to be able to enjoy it, and my plan for the weekend was to do that, and now it's all just. a big stupid pile of ugly feelings on the floor again

[cameron-phillips]

-What about the rest of you? You're back to normal? -Things have changed, John.

[br1ghtestlight]

"You fall in love as many times as you want, honey. Each one is lucky to have you. Except Jimmy Junior. I'm not sold on him."

"Wait, what?"

"Nothing!"

[july-19th-club]

endlessly obsessed myself with the visual descriptions of Arthur in this book. he said oh i know what arthuriana fans like. colin morgan!

[computerboyboobs]

Gabe probably has gifted kid syndrome. Hes only ever tasted victory but as soon as he hit a bump in the road (v1), what was supposed to be the supportive "adults" (council) immediately punished him.

ANON YOUR BRAIN. YOUR BRAIN

[proudfreakmetarusonikku]

thinking about eggman and his robot kids again like. idk i just find it so interesting the two he blatantly favours (metal sonic and sage) are both the most similar to him and the most different respectively.

like, metal sonic is very similar to eggman in a lot of ways, enough he can pose as him for an extended period of time flawlessly in heroes. for one, they’re both extremely intelligent- eggman is obviously a mechanical genius, and metal sonic would have to be one too to like, upgrade himself into godhood. they're both extremely violent and revel in playful sadism- eggman has literally Saved Sonics Life just to toy with him more, one of his major Achilles heels is that he rarely just goes for the pragmatic option bc he's overconfident and loves screwing with people for fun, whereas even in cd metal was abusing animals seemingly for no reason and taunts sonic before the race and in heroes like, the main 4 storylines before the last are literally just metal sonic fucking with people as a distraction like people forget he was a major factor behind shadow's clone angst bc he was the one in control of the shadow androids in heroes! he was messing with his head that whole fucking game! and that’s not even getting into their obsessions with sonic (eggmans merely being normal arch nemesis levels, while metal sonic's obsession is beyond monomaniacal to the point it literally drove him to psychosis) or them being dramatic bitches or how fucking terrifying they can be if they want to.

like, there’s a reason eggman repairs metal sonic and cares for him (in an obviously not exactly healthy way- eggman is shit at parenting lmao) despite him being his oldest sonic robot- silver sonic and mecha sonic might have objectively been more powerful, but they’re just robots to eggman. but metal sonic has a personality, and that personality is a lot like his own. eggman takes pride in that.

sage is, of course, intelligent and definitely not afraid of doing some pretty immoral shit herself if it’s for her dad, but she differs from him and her big brother in a really major way and that's in her demeanour. she's a lot more calm and collected than either of them. she's not very openly emotional, she's not swayed by a need for childish cruelty, she's efficient. she's vitally useful- she has like, the slightest iota of common sense, something the rest of her family doesnt. and it’s also something else eggman can take pride in. like, his care for his robot kids is pretty heavily based on his own ego like he does love them but like, it’s eggman, I don’t think he’s had a healthy interpersonal relationship in his life the closest thing he has to, like, a functioning long term friendship is the teenager who destroys his shit and calls him a bitch and who he tortured and tried like ninety times to violently kill.

sage being useful is one reason to feel proud, but i also think in his own way eggman is proud of her for being probably the most morally good person in the eggman empire- again, for his own ego. he himself obviously doesn’t exactly care about being a villain he loves being an absolute bellend but like, the fact someone who’s good can support him allows him to feel more Objectively Correct about his decisions and feel superiority over others.

like, obviously, he does genuinely Like them he's not the greatest dad but he Tries with those two in his own way. but that I think is the reason it’s specifically those two and he’s so reluctant to conclude that okay yes technically his other robots count.

[ziggy0-o]

i just had a dream that nick and roger were playing around during rehearsal with gongs and then when rick tried to start playing around with them, nick just did this fluoride stare and roger just side eyed the hell out of rick

[fragmentedblade]

I think I've become an official HI3 player. I check the HSR leaks hoping for iterations of HI3 characters now